Hi,

I too would like to have a supported way to generate a grub.cfg with LABEL= instead of UUID=

I am using 2.02~beta2 and this does not seems to be possible yet.

My use case is: prepare a baseline bootable system on a USB drive, make an image of it with dd, write that image with dd to several other USB disks.

The attached patches seem to be a good starting point as they do not change the default behavior, unlike #38366.

If the grub developers at least acknowledge the usefulness of the feature, then some of us may be willing to spend some more time on working out the details of the implementation.

Thanks,
   Antonio

There's a use case for this that makes me want it too: backup.

If I periodically clone my HDD to an external one, I'd like to be able to swap them when the internal one fails, like described here: <http://www.jwz.org/blog/2007/09/psa-backups/>. However, with UUIDs in the bootloader I can't do this. With labels I would be able to.

I'm not sure I follow.
Without GRUB_USE_LABEL set "true" it changes nothing.

Are you saying it breaks something un-related ?
If so then could you please explain as I would like to try to correct it.

Otherwise, could you please add a similar feature to grub2 ?

I have used this for about 12 months now with no issues and prefer labels for many reasons.

I have attached an updated patch for 1.99 release version, in the hope that this may at least be reviewed.